The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia (eBook, PDF)

Minoritized Experiences of Women Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education

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Produktbeschreibung

The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia: Minoritized Experiences of Women Faculty and Administrators in Higher Education illustrates the minoritized experiences of women faculty and administrators in higher education and highlights Appalachia as a geographic and cultural region, a sector in academia that still remains relatively ignored in mainstream feminist studies. This book is based on autobiographical and autoethnographic narratives of diverse women who discuss their similar and unique forms of oppression as students and as professionals in the academic workplace within Appalachia. Their minoritized experiences exemplify women's relational ties and the need for what the volume editor Alicia Chavira-Prado names the Feminist Alliance Project. Chavira-Prado calls for feminists to develop and enact an allied feminism that transcends class, race, or other artificially constructed borders and identities, as well as the specific subjectivities that have separated feminist groups. The narratives in The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia support the claim that white and nonwhite women experience similar minoritization within specific junctures of space, gender, and other identities. They thus show the need to be allies in recognizing and opposing all women's minoritization in order to end women's oppression. The book is of interest to women's studies, Appalachian studies, Latina/x studies, regional studies, American studies, critical theory, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, autoethnography courses, sociology, philosophy, diversity and inclusion and human resources professionals in higher education, and the general public.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433156120
• Artikelnr.: 54272456

Autorenporträt

Alicia Chavira-Prado is Special Assistant to the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Ohio University. She received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from UCLA and was a professor of cultural anthropology and Latino/a studies prior to becoming an administrator. Her interest in Appalachian women¿s minoritization grew from her work in higher education in the region.

Inhaltsangabe

Naomi Zack: Foreword: Feminism, Higher Education, and Appalachia - Acknowledgements - Alicia Chavira-Prado: Introduction: A Transracial Feminist Alliance in Appalachia? - Alicia Chavira-Prado: Understanding Minoritization - Laura L. Tussey: Oxbow: Finding the Path to Purpose Through Communities of Academic Women in Appalachia - Dina L. Lopez: Against All Odds - Ellen Belchior Rodrigues: The Academic Minority Women's Survival Handbook in Appalachia: Keep Your Head Down, Work, Be Invisible - Nancy Coldiron Preston: Recruiting Marginalized Participants Into Research: Reflections on a Study of Appalachian Women - Chantel Weisenmuller: The Imposter Syndrome: An Appalachian Woman in the Academy - Linda Koenig: Appalachian Privilege - Alicia Chavira-Prado: Conclusion: On the Significance of The Feminist Alliance Project in Appalachia - Index.

Rezensionen

"Alicia Chavira-Prado lays the groundwork for the long-overdue alliance of all women in the academy by shedding light on how 'traditional' feminist approaches, as well as higher education history and development, work to oppress and exclude them by silencing their voices, limiting opportunities for success, and ignoring their contributions. Through powerful narratives, the contributors make clear the ways in which social class and race intersect without dismissing the existence of white privilege." -Karen L. Dace, Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and author of Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation